The 100 5x03 Review
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I loved it.
+ Holy crap, Clarke, just wow. Her impaling one of the prisoners and staking him out as bait so she could pick off more of them was... yeesh.
+ I love all the parallels we've been getting this season and Clarke going full on Grounder is my favourite. Clarke playing Lincoln's role with the silence and then being tortured was the best. Also the callback to Murphy/Raven and dying alone was great. I love all the ways this season is mirroring season one so much.
+ The end was so perfect, in so many ways. I loved the shot of Bellamy walking into the headlights. I loved Clarke's expression when she heard his voice and realised who it was. The weight of her relief - not just from being rescued but that Bellamy and the others did survive, and that she knows that he'll protect Madi. The fact that Bellamy doesn't look away from her. ♥♥ "She is." ♥♥
+ Madi saving Spacekru from the two Eligius soldiers by very effectively killing them like the competent little Natblinda she is was awesome.
+ I loved that Bellamy (and the others) learn that Clarke's alive via Madi. It just feels appropriate. Madi recognising Bellamy was great and that shot of her leading him away by the hand made me unreasonably happy.
+ I loved the absolute trust Madi showed Bellamy based entirely on Clarke's stories about him. First, when she took his hand to lead him to save Clarke and second, by leaving and letting him save Clarke by himself. I really want to hear Clarke's stories about him if they instilled that much trust in him in Madi.
+ I loved the entire sequence with Spacekru listening to Eligius hunting down Clarke, thinking it's Octavia. Watching it play out from Spacekru's POV made it even more tense. I loved everyone's concerned looks at Bellamy after they got her, especially that it was Murphy who looked at him first.
+ "This is not murder, its survival. They die now or we die later. If Clarke was here this wouldn’t even be..." - Murphy. I love this.
"Clarke’s not here!" This episode makes it so clear that Clarke and her 'death' continues an open wound for Bellamy and I love it. Bellamy still feels so guilty and torn up about leaving her behind and has basically reconstructed his entire new life around trying to make that sacrifice worth it, trying to be a better person and make sure everyone who survived is doing okay, taking care of them, and above all living a life that the Clarke in his head would want him to. I am so excited to see the clash between how Bellamy has been remembering Clarke, how he’s changed her, and the Clarke that currently exists.
+ "Clarke didn’t die for us to live just so we could go back to the ground and make the same mistakes." - Bellamy. Ha, it amuses me so much that at the same time Clarke is running around playing full on pilot era Grounder with Eligius.
+"I left Clarke behind to die and I... I’m not doing it again." D:
+ "Teaching you would take days… and knowing you you’d probably still screw it up." - Raven. LOL. The Raven/Bellamy scene was great. I loved this teasing. I loved Raven making the sacrifice move in order to save her friends because of course she did. I loved Bellamy being so unwilling to leave her behind.
+ ...is someone going to have to pull a lever again? Does Raven get to do it this time?
+ I loved that Bellamy/Emori exchange after they safety landed. Their giant grins. The relief on Emori's face. They didn't have a lot this episode but what they did was lovely.
+ Of course Bellamy took the best dad mug, lol.
+ "So let it be John." Ouch Emori! That hurt. Poor Murphy. :( And then Bellamy compounds it with "I said it was technical" and he just can't catch a break. His face... D: That said, while I feel really terrible for him I'm not at all mad at Emori. What she said was cruel but more thoughtless than purposeful. She was spiralling in fear of messing up again and killing her family without Raven there to back her up. She was panicked and not thinking beyond her own fear. She was just so clearly terrified that I can’t be mad at her.
I think the most interesting part of their interactions this episode was their final one. "What? With Emori flying this is the survivor’s move." is so interesting because of his tone which came off very fond and as affectionate ribbing unlike during the docking. And he has this little smile on his face as he says it reinforcing that impression. Emori's reaction indicated to me that she heard the difference as well with that little initial tentative smile that quickly morphed into a searching look.
+ The contradiction of Murphy's behaviour towards Emori is so him and I like it. He goes from undermining her during the very tense docking with Eligius 4 by making snarky comments implying she can't do it to then being worried about leaving her alone at the pod and being genuinely hurt at her being mean at him. He clearly still loves her but doesn't know how to deal with that in addition to the current bitterness and strife between them.
+ I'm so happy that Murphy stayed on the ship with Raven because a) I would have hated her being left alone and was so happy for her when he showed up, and b) I love them together and I want more interaction between them. That whole scene was great. Murphy's expression when Raven told him there was no escape pod and Raven's laughter was delightful. Poor Murphy, but I'm with Raven here in finding it amusing. That is 100% Murphy's luck and I adore it (as long as he doesn't get killed.)
+ I loved Bellamy asking Murphy his opinion on what to do and him continuing to try and keep Murphy a valued member of the group, both in truth and so Murphy knew.
+ I found the complete lack of Bellamy/Echo really weird but also very telling. I never thought for a second that they would last the season but this confirms it for me. Even so I really don't understand why there wasn't something indicating that they were more than friends/teammates. Monty/Harper managed it. There were definitely moments where something could have been added in - after the fight on the bridge with them checking that they're both okay, or even getting a shot of Echo looking at Bellamy after they learn that Clarke is alive. Anything. I'm actually kind of annoyed that there isn't a moment between them.
+ I like that it's Echo who comes up with the idea to use the cryosleep prisoners as leverage and I like that after they landed she was still mainly thinking strategically (finding cover in the trees.)
+ "I for one missed your stupid little jokes." - Echo. I liked this little exchange between Murphy/Echo and her little smile at Murphy's dig at Monty, and the implication at a friendship that I hope we get to see.
+ I loved Echo telling the rest that they can celebrate when Murphy and Raven were back on the ground too and how focused she is on them all being important. They're her family now and I just really love that.
+ Clarke and Madi are still the best. I love protective mama bear Clarke and I loved her telling Madi she loved her.
+ "She's just a child." Love. Because, yes she is. But she's also a Natblinda and a Grounder and 5 seconds later it's revealed that she's leading her pursuers into a trap and 20 minutes later she saves Spacekru by spearing and shooting two more of the Eligius prisoners. Clarke spent the last six years training her to fight just in case. It reminds me of Abby plaintively telling Raven that Clarke was still a kid and I love Clarke being, sort of, in her mom's place.
+ I love Madi being the compassionate moral voice and her telling Clarke that what she was doing was wrong. The fact that she does have this inner moral centre and is willing to speak up to Clarke, who has been her whole world for 6 years, makes me feel a little better about how her future interactions with Octavia/Wonkru might go. I also like that combination she's shown of trust/compassion with willingness to do whatever she needed to do (lure into trap, kill the soldiers).
+ Zeke Shaw is great. But also clearly too good a person for The 100’s Earth and I fear for him.
+ Diyoza is also excellent. I love the way that she deals with people so effectively. My favourite was how she dealt with McCreary refusing to stop his pursuit of Madi - tell Falk to wound McCreary if he disobeys and then tells Harris to kill Falk if he disobeys. That was a bit of brilliant management there. I also loved her bringing Zeke into Clarke's interrogation to play good cop to McCreary's bad cop - she absolutely knew how that would play out - so she could be the reasonable middle.
+ I really hope we get a lot of Clarke/Diyoza interaction because Clarke's thing has always been manipulating other people to do what she wants and Diyzoa is a master class in that.
+ My first thought when Diyoza brought up Bellamy being willing to sacrifice 283 people for one person my first reaction was actually 'ehhh'. I mean sacrificing/mass murdering around 300 people is absolutely within Bellamy's wheelhouse, Clarke's too. In fact, they are probably far bigger murders then most of the prisoners on that ship. 283 people in Bellamy or Clarke terms is nothing. If this ship of prisoners learned exactly what happened during that year of hell on Earth, and what they did, it’s going to give them a far different take on all of them and honestly I can’t wait for it and their likely reasonable 'wtf' reaction to it.
+ I find it really hard to believe that Eden is literally the only green spot left on the entire planet.
+ This episode got me much more interested in Eligius and what the whole background is here. There were multiple Eligius missions, at least 3, so it's very likely that there are more ships full of people out there.
Then you have the fact that only Eligius 3 who were made Nightbloods seemingly to survive on another planet? I would kind of love if the season ended with our main characters heading off into space to a new world.
What is Order 11? Could Eligius have been experimenting on the prisoners? Perhaps something to do with whatever made the one on the main ship so strong. Perhaps a super soldier program. Or maybe the show will move even more into scifi direction and the cargo the captain was worried about was something from another planet either an alien organism or some new element/mineral?
I loved it.
+ Holy crap, Clarke, just wow. Her impaling one of the prisoners and staking him out as bait so she could pick off more of them was... yeesh.
+ I love all the parallels we've been getting this season and Clarke going full on Grounder is my favourite. Clarke playing Lincoln's role with the silence and then being tortured was the best. Also the callback to Murphy/Raven and dying alone was great. I love all the ways this season is mirroring season one so much.
+ The end was so perfect, in so many ways. I loved the shot of Bellamy walking into the headlights. I loved Clarke's expression when she heard his voice and realised who it was. The weight of her relief - not just from being rescued but that Bellamy and the others did survive, and that she knows that he'll protect Madi. The fact that Bellamy doesn't look away from her. ♥♥ "She is." ♥♥
+ Madi saving Spacekru from the two Eligius soldiers by very effectively killing them like the competent little Natblinda she is was awesome.
+ I loved that Bellamy (and the others) learn that Clarke's alive via Madi. It just feels appropriate. Madi recognising Bellamy was great and that shot of her leading him away by the hand made me unreasonably happy.
+ I loved the absolute trust Madi showed Bellamy based entirely on Clarke's stories about him. First, when she took his hand to lead him to save Clarke and second, by leaving and letting him save Clarke by himself. I really want to hear Clarke's stories about him if they instilled that much trust in him in Madi.
+ I loved the entire sequence with Spacekru listening to Eligius hunting down Clarke, thinking it's Octavia. Watching it play out from Spacekru's POV made it even more tense. I loved everyone's concerned looks at Bellamy after they got her, especially that it was Murphy who looked at him first.
+ "This is not murder, its survival. They die now or we die later. If Clarke was here this wouldn’t even be..." - Murphy. I love this.
"Clarke’s not here!" This episode makes it so clear that Clarke and her 'death' continues an open wound for Bellamy and I love it. Bellamy still feels so guilty and torn up about leaving her behind and has basically reconstructed his entire new life around trying to make that sacrifice worth it, trying to be a better person and make sure everyone who survived is doing okay, taking care of them, and above all living a life that the Clarke in his head would want him to. I am so excited to see the clash between how Bellamy has been remembering Clarke, how he’s changed her, and the Clarke that currently exists.
+ "Clarke didn’t die for us to live just so we could go back to the ground and make the same mistakes." - Bellamy. Ha, it amuses me so much that at the same time Clarke is running around playing full on pilot era Grounder with Eligius.
+"I left Clarke behind to die and I... I’m not doing it again." D:
+ "Teaching you would take days… and knowing you you’d probably still screw it up." - Raven. LOL. The Raven/Bellamy scene was great. I loved this teasing. I loved Raven making the sacrifice move in order to save her friends because of course she did. I loved Bellamy being so unwilling to leave her behind.
+ ...is someone going to have to pull a lever again? Does Raven get to do it this time?
+ I loved that Bellamy/Emori exchange after they safety landed. Their giant grins. The relief on Emori's face. They didn't have a lot this episode but what they did was lovely.
+ Of course Bellamy took the best dad mug, lol.
+ "So let it be John." Ouch Emori! That hurt. Poor Murphy. :( And then Bellamy compounds it with "I said it was technical" and he just can't catch a break. His face... D: That said, while I feel really terrible for him I'm not at all mad at Emori. What she said was cruel but more thoughtless than purposeful. She was spiralling in fear of messing up again and killing her family without Raven there to back her up. She was panicked and not thinking beyond her own fear. She was just so clearly terrified that I can’t be mad at her.
I think the most interesting part of their interactions this episode was their final one. "What? With Emori flying this is the survivor’s move." is so interesting because of his tone which came off very fond and as affectionate ribbing unlike during the docking. And he has this little smile on his face as he says it reinforcing that impression. Emori's reaction indicated to me that she heard the difference as well with that little initial tentative smile that quickly morphed into a searching look.
+ The contradiction of Murphy's behaviour towards Emori is so him and I like it. He goes from undermining her during the very tense docking with Eligius 4 by making snarky comments implying she can't do it to then being worried about leaving her alone at the pod and being genuinely hurt at her being mean at him. He clearly still loves her but doesn't know how to deal with that in addition to the current bitterness and strife between them.
+ I'm so happy that Murphy stayed on the ship with Raven because a) I would have hated her being left alone and was so happy for her when he showed up, and b) I love them together and I want more interaction between them. That whole scene was great. Murphy's expression when Raven told him there was no escape pod and Raven's laughter was delightful. Poor Murphy, but I'm with Raven here in finding it amusing. That is 100% Murphy's luck and I adore it (as long as he doesn't get killed.)
+ I loved Bellamy asking Murphy his opinion on what to do and him continuing to try and keep Murphy a valued member of the group, both in truth and so Murphy knew.
+ I found the complete lack of Bellamy/Echo really weird but also very telling. I never thought for a second that they would last the season but this confirms it for me. Even so I really don't understand why there wasn't something indicating that they were more than friends/teammates. Monty/Harper managed it. There were definitely moments where something could have been added in - after the fight on the bridge with them checking that they're both okay, or even getting a shot of Echo looking at Bellamy after they learn that Clarke is alive. Anything. I'm actually kind of annoyed that there isn't a moment between them.
+ I like that it's Echo who comes up with the idea to use the cryosleep prisoners as leverage and I like that after they landed she was still mainly thinking strategically (finding cover in the trees.)
+ "I for one missed your stupid little jokes." - Echo. I liked this little exchange between Murphy/Echo and her little smile at Murphy's dig at Monty, and the implication at a friendship that I hope we get to see.
+ I loved Echo telling the rest that they can celebrate when Murphy and Raven were back on the ground too and how focused she is on them all being important. They're her family now and I just really love that.
+ Clarke and Madi are still the best. I love protective mama bear Clarke and I loved her telling Madi she loved her.
+ "She's just a child." Love. Because, yes she is. But she's also a Natblinda and a Grounder and 5 seconds later it's revealed that she's leading her pursuers into a trap and 20 minutes later she saves Spacekru by spearing and shooting two more of the Eligius prisoners. Clarke spent the last six years training her to fight just in case. It reminds me of Abby plaintively telling Raven that Clarke was still a kid and I love Clarke being, sort of, in her mom's place.
+ I love Madi being the compassionate moral voice and her telling Clarke that what she was doing was wrong. The fact that she does have this inner moral centre and is willing to speak up to Clarke, who has been her whole world for 6 years, makes me feel a little better about how her future interactions with Octavia/Wonkru might go. I also like that combination she's shown of trust/compassion with willingness to do whatever she needed to do (lure into trap, kill the soldiers).
+ Zeke Shaw is great. But also clearly too good a person for The 100’s Earth and I fear for him.
+ Diyoza is also excellent. I love the way that she deals with people so effectively. My favourite was how she dealt with McCreary refusing to stop his pursuit of Madi - tell Falk to wound McCreary if he disobeys and then tells Harris to kill Falk if he disobeys. That was a bit of brilliant management there. I also loved her bringing Zeke into Clarke's interrogation to play good cop to McCreary's bad cop - she absolutely knew how that would play out - so she could be the reasonable middle.
+ I really hope we get a lot of Clarke/Diyoza interaction because Clarke's thing has always been manipulating other people to do what she wants and Diyzoa is a master class in that.
+ My first thought when Diyoza brought up Bellamy being willing to sacrifice 283 people for one person my first reaction was actually 'ehhh'. I mean sacrificing/mass murdering around 300 people is absolutely within Bellamy's wheelhouse, Clarke's too. In fact, they are probably far bigger murders then most of the prisoners on that ship. 283 people in Bellamy or Clarke terms is nothing. If this ship of prisoners learned exactly what happened during that year of hell on Earth, and what they did, it’s going to give them a far different take on all of them and honestly I can’t wait for it and their likely reasonable 'wtf' reaction to it.
+ I find it really hard to believe that Eden is literally the only green spot left on the entire planet.
+ This episode got me much more interested in Eligius and what the whole background is here. There were multiple Eligius missions, at least 3, so it's very likely that there are more ships full of people out there.
Then you have the fact that only Eligius 3 who were made Nightbloods seemingly to survive on another planet? I would kind of love if the season ended with our main characters heading off into space to a new world.
What is Order 11? Could Eligius have been experimenting on the prisoners? Perhaps something to do with whatever made the one on the main ship so strong. Perhaps a super soldier program. Or maybe the show will move even more into scifi direction and the cargo the captain was worried about was something from another planet either an alien organism or some new element/mineral?
